Bumper bar and rear fender for automobiles



g F. PEACOCK BUMPER BAR AND REAR FENDER FOR AUTOMOBILES Filed Nov. 24.1925 \NVE NTOR" rank peacoc f BY-vflug4 uylwfi u flbw ATTORNEYS.

.Patentecl AugtZ,1927. i I 1,637,454

I NI re n ST A T E s ATE NT ounce NK PEACOCK, orcnoynon, nEAR SYDNEY,NEW sour warns, AUSTRALIA.

i i BUMPER BAR AND, REAR reunite FQR AUTOMOBILES. J fhpplication filedNovember 24, 1925,5eria1 No. 71,042, in Australia December 10, 1924.

This invention relates tobumper bars and the rear wings and the rearcovers of the rear fender bars for mitomobiles. for proautomobile body;they lie directly behind tecting the same from injury by forward or therear Wings and more or less above their rearward contact with otherobjects. Hereback ends. These wing tenders are not mutofore a variety ofsuch devices have been tually supported and it is necessary there-'55used, all, however, having the common featore that their attachments tothe rear dumb ture ofone or more flat bars with their flat irons bestrutted or gusset stayed. The desurfaces disposed vertically so thatthe bars tail of the reinforcement may be modified are presentedtlatwise towards any object according to circumstances, but will gener-1,0 which may strike or be struck by them, and ally take the form ofgusset stays which they are therefore tree to flex, and must be maybeintegral with the clamping members made of suflicient section to resiststresses Which are bolted 11p to the dumb irons. 'to which they aresubjected in use; these The setting of the bars edgewise instead barsare sometimes crossed and in many of fla'twise not only produces a moreservice-' 5 cases are reinforced with other bars arablebun'iper, butoffers better appearance .65

ranged springwise rearward of them, but alto the fitment. ways so thatthe system of bars is more or I In. the accompanying drawing:-

less flexible. In certain cases rigid pipe The drawing is a perspectiveview of a bars,'angle iron, and channel iron bars have bumper tor thefront or rear of a car, conbeen usedjl'or the like purpose, but thesestructed according to the present invention latter types of bar areobjectionablein apand mounted rearwardly on a carrier spring pearanceand unless made in'a very heavy member attachable by brackets to thedumb type of construction they are readily bent Irons. and deformed andfail to offer the necessary, 'lie el'riug' to the drawing, A, B and C .5it i st injury to the vehicle. are fiat bars disposed horizontally withtheir According to the 'present'invention the ends bent backwardly andsecured together bumper bars for automobiles consist of a y flame boltsD and thimbles E t hold plurality of bars in parallel order, ashort themin spaced relation. Similar spacing distance apart, and With their flatsides disbolts and thimblcs F y be Used Centrally posed in horizontalplanes. The several 01 at other intermediate positions in these bars(three bars are usually used) are selength of the bars. G arebrackets ofany cured together to form a grating-like strucknown type attachable tothe dumb irons ture by means of through bolts and thirnbles to whichthey are structurally adapted in r andyprefembly 1 b l i d i f eachcase.These brackets may be of the substantial dimensions. At their ends thebuffer type, but when used in connection 5 bars are bent backwardsedgewise to offer with the carrier spring or springs H which a d li thicurving of th d f are set edgewise, that is, with their flats in bumperbars is a commonplace feature in Vertical plane, it is not necessarythat any known constructions and no novelty is butter arrangementsshouldbe used in the 4 claimed in respect of it intrinsically. bracketsG. F orwardly returned ends of Similar bumper bars maybe used at the fip g H are Secured in the rear end of the car as well as at the forwardclamp pieces K which secure the three bars end of it, but in cases wherethe spare tire A, B and C in spaced relation as'well as or spare wheeliecarried across the back of fixing them to the supporting spring or 4 thetonneau, this wheel or tire may be uti-l springs H. The clamps K may beof ornate lized as part of the protective device. In design. n

this case the middle portion of the back I What I claim as my inventionand desir bumper is omitted and the two end porto secure by LettersPatent is v tions only of it areused; these short end A bumper for amotor vehicle comprising 50 pieces form curved guards Which protect aplurality of flat steel bars disposed with wardly looped ends, disposededgewise rear- Wardly of said flz twise bars and adaptedto mining themspaced apart.

be secured to the vehicle frame, and clamps embracing the ends of sa dcarrier bar and said fiatwlse'bars and having portions e2:-

tending-between the fiatwise bars for main- In testimony whereof I affixmy signature.

7 FRANK PEACOCK.

